I have an SP13000 with PVR500 in a Silverstone LC11M case. And it is NOT
hot.
And quite quiet.
Sounds like YMMV
Geoff
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:36:33 -0400, IvanK. wrote:
>I made the stupid mistake of not doing my homework when it comes to research
>before buying and ended up with a sp13000 in a Travla C137-120W case with a
>pvr250 and a pvr350. Up to that point I thought the main generator of heat
>in my atx box were the three 200GB seagate drives and the 2.4Ghz pentium4.
>But the pvrs ran so hot inside this tiny box (the mini-itx box) that my
>system froze a few times. And I only have a 12GB 2.5" drive inside. The
>main storage is usb2-connected. After I put 4 fans inside the box, it's
>running sufficiently cool not to freeze any more. And louder too.
>
>If you still haven't forked over the cash for a pci pvr, I'd really suggest
>you look into those usb2 plextors mp402 or whatever the number. Search the
>mailing list.
>
>But what you heard about the superb tv-out quality if the pvr350 is true.
>However make sure you cool that card well in a mini-itx box or it'll overheat
>and start introducing artefacts in the mpegs.
>
>IvanK.
>
>On Wednesday 31 August 2005 03:55 pm, Joachim Schwarzhorn wrote:
>> Hallo,
>>
>> I want to use an Epia Board SP8000 or SP13000 for my HTPC. On different
>> HTPC-forums I read, that the TV-Out of the Hauppauge PVR350 is better
>> compared to the onboard TV-out. And I heard about heat problems of the
>> PVR350 especially in small cases (like the ones for epia).
>>
>> On the other hand: the PVR500 has two separate tunes (= independent
>> recording of two channels) but no TV-out.
>>
>> Any suggestions or recommandations?
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Joachim
>
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